sunset action lense.

Aaron Wilson · April 9, 2005

I need to do a shoot with people moving at a jogging (fast walk) speed under a sun set lighting (or over cast evening). The subjects will be about 100 feet away... moving towards me... I have a 80-200 1:4.5-5.6. I notice there is motion blur in some photos... Can any one recumend a lense? Or ideas?

ian408 · April 10, 2005

Aaron Wilson wrote:

I need to do a shoot with people moving at a jogging (fast walk) speed under a sun set lighting (or over cast evening). The subjects will be about 100 feet away... moving towards me... I have a 80-200 1:4.5-5.6. I notice there is motion blur in some photos... Can any one recumend a lense? Or ideas?

If you're getting the composition you want, try higher shutter speeds first.

Ian

digismile · April 10, 2005

Aaron,

I take a lot of pictures of people running and have had my share of blur. Until I showed up here at dgrin, I was trying to stomp out blur like it was the plague.

The key to no blur was a high enough shutter speed (via a high enough ISO) and continuous focus on the camera.

On your 20D, this means that you should use AISERVO or AIFOCUS. Depending on the number of people approaching you, you might have to set your camera to use a specific focus point. I found that in a crowd of runners the focus will sometimes change to the wrong person. I would also take the camera off of single shot mode to allow continuous shooting.

Today I actually prefer a bit of blur as it shows that the person is indeed in motion. If I can freeze their head/torso, but have their arms or legs a little blurred, I am happy. For slow runners approaching me, 1/60 - 1/200 of a second has worked pretty well in most cases. For faster runners, I sometimes needed something a bit faster.

Without seeing any pictures, my guess is that the entire person is OOF. This is a sign that the person has moved from the point focused by the camera. AISERVO does a good job in anticipating the correct focus for the moving subject (significantly better than the 10D which I had before).

Regards,
Brad

Aaron Wilson · April 10, 2005

I have done that.... but for a new lenses should i go with a 17-80 with a f2.8? lower the f the faster shutter speed i can get in low light settings right?

Shay Stephens · April 10, 2005

Why not use a higher ISO if conditions do not allow a fast shutter speed at lower ISO's?

But in general, an f/2.8 lens or brighter will let you get faster shutter speeds.

Aaron Wilson wrote:

I have done that.... but for a new lenses should i go with a 17-80 with a f2.8? lower the f the faster shutter speed i can get in low light settings right?

Aaron Wilson · April 10, 2005

like nice clear shoots vs. lots of noise in the photos

Shay Stephens · April 10, 2005

That's just crazy talk ;-)

Aaron Wilson wrote:

like nice clear shoots vs. lots of noise in the photos

sunset action lense.

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